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We used to write poetry and aspire to higher states of consciousness.

Anyway, nice in-depth article. The results will surprise you. Especially point 6.



There is almost definitely more poetry and literature in general being written today than in the past, you just have to search for it.


There may be more in absolute numbers but relative to spam it practically doesn't exist and when you search half your search results are spam too.


Find authority sites on contemporary poetry.


> Anyway, nice in-depth article. The results will surprise you. Especially point 6.

I wonder how this line would fare in their headline analysis.


> The results will surprise you. Especially point 6.

I see what you did there.


Marketing exists purely in thought space. It's currency is the imagination.

Like most art, we commercialize it until our categories are diffusive.

But it's still there.


i generally scoff at poetry from a respective of blissful near-ignorance. Most dorms at least, but i recently saw a piece and thought to myself

oh.




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